General interdisciplinary Engineer

General Interdisciplinary Engineer

Location:

Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts Type:
Contract To Hire Compensation: $ - $ Work Model:
Onsite – onsite

Hours:

40.0 hours per week Security Clearance:
Must hold a current Top Secret clearance with SCI access (TS/SCI)

• Apply engineering theories, principles, concepts, standards, and methods sufficient to extend or modify theories, concepts, and assumptions.
• Resolve unique or novel problems, conditions, or issues which may require significantly altering standard practices, equipment, devices, processes, and known techniques.
• Provide expert advice to professional colleagues and/or agency officials responsible for broad program operations.
• Apply and support digital engineering concepts and techniques throughout the program lifecycle, such as providing technical support to Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).
• Evaluate the value and applicability of new or improved technology, strategies, trends, and applications.
• Investigate, predict, and anticipate issues and conditions extending beyond a single specialty area and affecting known standards, approaches, precedents, or concepts.
• Develop or collaborate in the formulation of new standards, applications, concepts, or theories.
• Advocate recommendations, strategies, and actions to reconcile or resolve novel, conflicting, or controversial issues or policies.
• Perform needs analysis to define opportunities for new or improved systems engineering programs/processes.
• Perform problem/gap definition, trade space analysis, science, and technology roadmap analysis, concept development, decision analysis, and cost, schedule, performance/system capability/system security trade-off analysis.
• Incorporate system security and resiliency engineering as part of system designs to meet operational needs and operational/environmental factors.
• Develop cost estimates for new or modified systems.
• Evaluate alternative proposed plans, systems engineering programs, design, and test results to assure subsystem and system performance is achieved in accordance with program specifications.
• Prepare management reports and conduct technical presentations for planning, implementation, and corrective action using application of engineering economy principles.
• Prepare technical documents which define, specify, and recommend system/functional/subsystem characteristics, requirements, and specifications.
• Ensure the integration of all system components and with external systems.
• Design/perform system level tests to assure that subsystems and system performance is achieved in accordance with approved specifications.
• Perform validation of systems, including development of criteria and procedures.
• Analyze and/or evaluate test results of major engineering systems.
• Manage/sustain program technical baseline.
• Provide system/program engineering, technical support, and technical training to support programs/initiatives, including but not limited to acquisition, development, integration, sustainment, continued evolution, deployment/fielding and installation, and operations oversight.
• Provide engineering support services and inputs to program and project risk management activities in compliance with Air Force processes.
• Provide analysis and recommendations to incorporate communications systems and Modular Open System Architectures (e.g., Open Mission Systems) on host platforms with an NC3 mission to enable NC3 modernization.

• 10+ years experience in a systems engineering role.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Additional years of experience may be substituted for degree requirements.
• In-depth knowledge and skill in applying engineering theories, principles, concepts, standards, and methods sufficient to extend or modify theories, concepts, and assumptions.
• Able to exercise judgment and ingenuity in evaluating the value and applicability of new or improved technology, strategies, trends, or applications; investigating, predicting, and anticipating issues and conditions extending beyond a single specialty area, and affecting known standards, approaches, precedents, or concepts.
• Experience developing or collaborating in the formulation of new standards,…